In reviving an old PC I have been experimenting with all different ways of booting Puppy.

I have finished up going for running Puppy from a partition on my hard drive, with a second partition as a swap partition.

Everything seems to be running great, apart from the fact that I am running out of space on the main partition. The partition is 2GB, which is confirmed by MUT. Yet, I cannot anywhere near that much stuff on there before I get errors stating that the disk is full.

I did think that I might actually be acessing a pupxxx file, which was mounted at boot. However, I can't seem to resize this or access it.

In version 1.03, press 2 and in version 1.04, press 3, to skip pup001 creation, then press ENTER afterwards so no partition is selected. This will avoid creation of pup001 in any partition._________________Puppy user since Oct 2004. Want FreeOffice? Get the sfs (English only).

I tried the DOS one, but it failed. The dir command gave lots of files with unreadable names. THe command line suggested gave an errors regarding a bad file allocation table. However, this might be because of the partition type?

Once you run the HD-installed Puppy, there is NO NEED to resize pup001 - it is no longer used. Naturally, Puppy gives you an error message when you try to resize it.

Your hda1 size (from console and from MUT) do not equal - most likely a filesystem error. Bruce advised you already to check it. May I add that you can try resizing the partitions, too. Swap = 2X RAM, or 128 MB in your case will be OK, or even 256 MB, but perhaps not over 1 G.

If you're familiar with DOS, good old "format c:/u" command (after wiping the drive of partitions and creating only 1 FAT partition for the entire disk) will tell you if the drive is still usable. If it is, then redo your partitions in Puppy (cfdisk in console), and reinstall. And don't bother to resize pup001 again

Always press 2 or 3 at boot-up of Puppy CD to prevent Puppy from using the drive, so you can do what you like with its partitions._________________Puppy user since Oct 2004. Want FreeOffice? Get the sfs (English only).

I have to say that trying to resize pup001 was when I was getting desperate!

When I attempt to copy files it seems that I have around 150 MB free, although I reckon that should be closer to 1.5 GB

64 MB RAM

Option 2 install (Chubby Puppy - think I have not mentioned that so far)

Using GRUB

Using that exact swapon command in that exact file

MUT is not misreporting (I think). The 'Swap Off' button is an option as opposed to an indication.

I will try fsck. Part of the problem that I have is that my PC will not boot from CD. To get around this I am using a 'WAKEUP' disk as found elsewhere on the forum. This does not seem to give me many options when booting.

I will give it a go and post an update.

(PS I am away for a couple of days to my activity here will disappear. I will be back)

I tried the dsck command and it found some errors, wihch I fixed. However, this made no difference to the figures given in the previous posts.

I also tried e2dsck (I think that is the command) which was suggested by the bootup comments when running Chubby Puppy from the CD. This found lots of errors and apparently fixed them. However, when I re-ran the program it just found the same errors. Anyway, it didn't work.

So I started again.

I now have three partition, one for Puppy (512MB), one as a swap (256MB) and one spare with all the extra space.

One further problem I had was that cfdisk did not seem to partition properly. Puppy itself would not recognise some of the paritions and when I eventually used Ranish it said some of the values in the partition table were out of range. Using Ranish to make three partitions (either FAT-32 or FAT16) finally worked. All the partitions now show the space that I would expect.